{"id":180,"date":"2010-04-10T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/04\/in-pursuit-of-happiness\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T18:51:00","slug":"in-pursuit-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/04\/in-pursuit-of-happiness.html","title":{"rendered":"In Pursuit of Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0uPSljNE9f4\/S8EONX9YtyI\/AAAAAAAAA3c\/YUKkIHPLYls\/s1600\/101_1343.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0uPSljNE9f4\/S8EONX9YtyI\/AAAAAAAAA3c\/YUKkIHPLYls\/s200\/101_1343.JPG\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Just listened to a song by an old bud and fellow student of Katagiri Roshi: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/play_now\/song_3745605\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>In Pursuit of Happiness<\/i><\/a><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'> by Lars and the Lune-a-Tick Pickers. <\/span><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>\u201cWe jam and cram that highway\/ <\/span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>as exhaust fumes fill the air\/<\/span><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>on the road to despair.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4330911338438640912-4112938435538203510?l=wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just listened to a song by an old bud and fellow student of Katagiri Roshi: In Pursuit of Happiness by Lars and the Lune-a-Tick Pickers. \u201cWe jam and cram that highway\/ as exhaust fumes fill the air\/on the road to despair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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